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Encyclopedia Britannica



BONHAM

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 205 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BLA-BOS
BONHAM , a town and the county-seat of Fannin county,
Texas
 , U.S.A., about 14 M. S. of the Red river, in the north-
east
 
part
  of the state, and 70 M. N. of
Dallas
 . Pop. (189o) 3361; (1900) 5042 (1223 being negroes) ; (1910),4844. It served by the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas
 , and the Texas & Pacific railways. Bonham is the seat of Carlton College (Christian), a woman's college founded in 1867; and its high school is one of the best in the state. It is a trading and shipping centre of an extensive farming territory devoted to the raising of live-stock and to the growing of
cotton
 , Indian corn, fruit, &c. It has large
cotton
  gins and compresses, a large cotton mill, flour mills, canning and ice factories, railway repair shops, planing mills and carriage works. The town was named in honour of J. B. Bonham, a native of
South
  Carolina, who was killed in the Alamo. The first
settlement
  here was made in 1836. The town was incorporated in 1850, and was reincorporated in 1886.


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